{"title":"Aches, Pains, Rumbles, and Stumbles: Applying Somatic Countertransference and Body Reactivity in Clinical Work and Teaching.","authors":"K. Zerbe","doi":"10.1521/prev.2022.109.2.167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2022.109.2.167","url":null,"abstract":"Recognizing somatic countertransference reactions is an essential tool for the psychodynamic clinician. Although the analyst's bodily reactivity has been written about throughout the history of our field, contemporary neuroscience, multiple code theory, and nonlinear system dynamics provide scientific buttressing to understand embodied phenomena. Patients often speak with and about their bodies, and the clinician who pays attention to these communications, as well as those emanating from his or her own body, has an additional resource to help the patient. Elvin Semrad's classic but largely unremembered \"tour of the body\" is one tool that can assist clinicians in how to receive and process body reactions that may be unconsciously split off, consciously withheld, or felt dangerous or beguiling. Three examples are used to illustrate embodiment and somatic countertransference as important clinical guides. An argument is made that these concepts should be taught and integrated into psychodynamic curricula.","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"109 2 1","pages":"167-193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44206895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Festering: Mini-moments.","authors":"M. Eigen","doi":"10.1521/prev.2022.109.2.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2022.109.2.91","url":null,"abstract":"Moment-to-moment dialogue between analyst and patient opens themes relating to psychic depths, inhibitions, and support for a need to grow. The therapy partners grow together as they engage psychic contact and explore elements that previously forced the patient to be hospitalized. A result is appreciation for ways contact with the depths can aid more playful, caring, and resourceful ways of being together and working with oneself.","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"109 2 1","pages":"91-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47870505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Call for Inclusiveness in the Psychoanalytic Community.","authors":"Joyce M Rosenberg","doi":"10.1521/prev.2022.109.1.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2022.109.1.35","url":null,"abstract":"Historically, the psychoanalytic profession has been populated by white analysts. That has been changing as more people of color have enrolled in analytic institutes. But more is needed for institutes to truly be inclusive. White analysts need to be more sensitive to the experience of colleagues and candidates of color. They need to be aware of the dynamic known as White privilege, and how their own White privilege may affect their interactions with people of color. Institutes need to look at their curricula and how they teach candidates to analyze. The early generations of psychoanalytic theorists including Freud worked with White patients. The theories they wrote-and that are still being taught-have led to many analysts knowing how to work with White people, but not necessarily people of color.","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"109 1 1","pages":"35-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41955619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meditations on Psychoanalysis, Race, and the Divided Self.","authors":"Lee Jenkins","doi":"10.1521/prev.2022.109.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2022.109.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"The author, an African American, reflects on what it means to be a psychoanalyst and the effectiveness of psychoanalytic thinking in response to the racial dilemma in the United States. The current climate is a result of longstanding inequality of the races and reflects the social unrest prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement and the police killings of unarmed Black people. Three poems are also presented expressing some of the ideas discussed in the meditation.","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"109 1 1","pages":"13-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44664083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Courage and Fear: Weathering the Collective Racial Storm.","authors":"Fanny Brewster","doi":"10.1521/prev.2022.109.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2022.109.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"During the past 2 years our American collective has seen a return to political demonstrations and increased activities towards a deepening consciousness related to raciality. This article asks that we look at racism within the contexts of our collective American psychology and our personhood. This perspective considers Jungian psychology and its influences on the development of this form of psychoanalysis in America. Is this the work of psychology-to increase understanding and compassion among individuals of different ethnicities? The article explores the grievous and grief that is a necessary aspect of racial suffering for individuals of color. The individuation that Jungian psychology oftentimes references can be applied to the individual personhood of those within an Africanist cultural group. Discussion in the article acknowledges this inclusion as well as the idea of furthering a consciousness of Africanist people as valued members of American society.","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"109 1 1","pages":"3-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46150311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Giorgio Agamben.","authors":"R. Lamothe","doi":"10.1521/prev.2022.109.1.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2022.109.1.39","url":null,"abstract":"The author uses the work of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben to reimagine the meaning and dynamics of trauma, as well as psychoanalysis as a process that remedies, in part, traumatic experiences. More particularly, trauma is conceptualized in terms of Agamben's notions of potentiality, singularity/suchness, and inoperativity, although these are inflected from psychosocial developmental and political perspectives. This provides a way to bridge the idea of individual trauma with the larger political milieu's apparatuses that can be systemically traumatizing, as seen in the social death of racism. This reframing of trauma leads to reconceiving the process of therapy as rendering inoperative memories of trauma and, in some cases, traumainducing apparatuses, while, in part, mending the dialectical and paradoxical tension between potentiality and actuality that is necessary for socialpolitical agency and experiences of singularity.","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"109 1 1","pages":"39-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44015382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Trans∗ Zapping of Psychoanalysis.","authors":"Laurie Laufer","doi":"10.1521/prev.2021.108.4.387","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2021.108.4.387","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In France, transsexualism was introduced in psychoanalysis through the mediation of medicine. The statements of psychoanalysts on transgender people are considered as offensive by the people concerned. Since the 1970s, trans∗ people have refused to be objectified as \"clinical cases\" and have decided to \"zap\" psychoanalysis, the vehicle for a violent, discriminatory rhetoric redolent of psychiatry. Is a critical debate between the knowledge derived from the Freudian field and from the gay, lesbian, and trans∗ field possible in order to revamp the questionings on gender and sexuality? Can psychoanalytical theory and practice overcome their political-psychiatric origins by taking into account the knowledge and theories of <i>transpédégouines</i> (\"transgaylesbian\" or \"queer\")?</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"108 4","pages":"387-410"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39771388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender Trouble and Return of the <i>Sexual</i> in a Cisgender Research Collective Confronted With Trans∗ Femininity.","authors":"Pascale Molinier","doi":"10.1521/prev.2021.108.4.433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2021.108.4.433","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author analyzes a research study of trans∗ women and their surgeons, conducted before and after vaginoplasty in a French public hospital service. The essay is an examination of countertransference in three research frameworks: (1) working with a research team; (2) taking part in a peer group, facilitated by a psychologist, a surgeon, and a secretary, bringing together women who had already undergone surgery and those awaiting it; and (3) research interviews with Lara, a 64-year-old trans∗ woman. The author emphasizes the importance of taking into account gender countertransference-that is, the disruptive effects of the encounter with trans∗ people and their desires, paying specific attention to what the encounter with trans∗ femininities has stirred or revealed in terms of the author's own relationship to the body and to cisgender femininity.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"108 4","pages":"433-458"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39682447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trans∗, France, and Countertransference: Introduction to the Special Issue.","authors":"Nicolas Evzonas","doi":"10.1521/prev.2021.108.4.373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2021.108.4.373","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"108 4","pages":"373-385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39771390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Are We <i>Safe</i> Analysts?\" Cisgender Countertransferential Fantasies in the Treatment of Transgender Patients.","authors":"Patricia Porchat, Beatriz Santos","doi":"10.1521/prev.2021.108.4.411","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2021.108.4.411","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors examine the impact of countertransference in two clinical cases of transgender patients treated by two cisgender analysts who are accustomed to receiving nonconforming gender patients in France and Brazil. The context is that of contemporary views of transphobic countertransference reactions, specifically the work of Griffin Hansbury, who describes these reactions in terms of \"unthinkable anxieties.\" Like other theorists with expanding notions of countertransference, the authors view transphobia in analysis as an \"instrument of research\" and consider how taking responsibility for the transference is particularly relevant in respect to clinical cases that also reflect societal changes. Following the authors' case presentations, they identify four different fantasies and countertransferential reactions that sprang from their efforts to be <i>safe analysts</i> or, in other words, analysts concerned about the perpetuation of discrimination, violence, and oppression that may have guided their work.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"108 4","pages":"411-431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39682446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}